EARN in Arkansas

Arkansas Network publications

• Kids at The Capitol 2025

  • June 4, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  Collective Bargaining Rights Preemption

• Why Are We Still Talking About Additional Income Tax Cuts?

  • May 8, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Budgets and Taxes

• Arkansas’s New Ballot Measure Laws: A Game You Can’t Win

  • May 5, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Rebecca Zimmerman

• 2025 Legislative Session Preemption Efforts Had Mixed Results

  • April 30, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Val Habrock
  Democracy

• Drastically Shrinking the Federal Workforce Means Cutting Arkansas Jobs and Services

  • March 31, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Employment

• Arkansas Preemption Bills: Local Control Under Threat

  • March 27, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Val Habrock
  Preemption

• Time to Act: Addressing the Cost Crisis of Child Care

  • January 30, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Nicole Carey
  Children and Families

• The Arkansas $11 Minimum Wage is Not Enough

  • January 28, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Minimum Wage

• The State of Working Arkansas

  • May 21, 2024
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  EARN in the South Minimum Wage State of Working X Unemployment Insurance Unions and Worker Power Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Administrative Win for the Childcare Workforce

  • January 29, 2024
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Olivia Gardner
  Care Economy Family Economic Security